Al Perrodin, a Contra Costa County resident, was charged with a single count of misdemeanor solicitation of a sex worker, a DA spokeswoman confirmed Thursday. Authorities say he admitted to buying sex from a woman who has been linked to dozens of Bay Area police officers, and who allegedly had sex with some officers when she was underage.

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The woman, who used to go by the name Celeste Guap, gave lengthy interviews with investigators in which she said she had sex with several current and former police officers. In some cases, she said money was exchanged. In at least one case, an officer she was having sex with warned her about law enforcement sweeps related to prostitution in Oakland.

Last week, Contra Costa DA Mark Peterson announced he had investigated several Bay Area police officers, but he had opted only to charge Perrodin, who he did not name at the time. Seven other officers from departments in Oakland, Livermore, and the Contra Costa Sheriff’s Office have been charged or are facing charges in Alameda County.

“We filed the charges we felt were appropriate in this case,” Peterson said during his remarks to reporters.

Perrodin reportedly met the woman on Facebook and arranged to meet her in December at a dingy motel on San Pablo Avenue in Richmond, according to text messages obtained by this newspaper. The woman was 18 at the time.

At OPD, Perrodin was the lieutenant supervising the homicide unit in the 1980s before he was captain of the youth services division in the 1990s.

David DeBolt is a reporter for the Bay Area News Group who covers Oakland. DeBolt grew up in the Bay Area and has worked for daily newspapers in Palo Alto, Fairfield and Walnut Creek. He joined the organization in 2012.

Violent police encounters in California last year led to the deaths of 157 people and six officers, the state attorney general’s office said Thursday in a report that provides the first statewide tally on police use-of-force incidents.